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CP 5.591. The chicken you say pecks by instinct. But if you are going to think every poor chicken endowed with an innate tendency toward a positive truth, why should you think that to man alone this gift is denied? If you carefully consider with an unbiased mind all the circumstances of the early history of science and all the other facts bearing on the question, which are far too various to be specifically alluded to in this lecture, I am quite sure that you must be brought to acknowledge that man's mind has a natural adaptation to imagining correct theories of some kinds, and in particular to correct theories about forces, without some glimmer of which he could not form social ties and consequently could not reproduce his kind. In short, the instincts conducive to assimilation of food, and the instincts conducive to reproduction, must have involved from the beginning certain tendencies to think truly about physics, on the one hand, and about psychics, on the other. It is somehow more than a mere figure of speech to say that nature fecundates the mind of man with ideas which, when those ideas grow up, will resemble their father, Nature. END
If you felt like it, you might practice your imaginative abilities by translating this into a Shakespeare soliloquy. It reads as a draft of such. Both men were moderns who regarded Nature as a sufficient basis for pointing to cause. And therefore leaving the mystery of Reality intact.
The entire spiritual quest is about contemplating God.
Ken Wilber created an entire book to remind us that the early proponents of quantum ideas were all mystics. Quantum theory suggests that there is vastly more to reality than what we now perceive.
In Chapter 6 of Isaiah, this thought is succinctly stated in the 'see and see but do not understand' section.
Everything that is most germane to our future lies beyond our normal vision. Only psychics of a certain stripes can give us hints. To go there is to be hooked on supposition and wrestle with the existential problems of uncertainty.
Suffice to say that there is no greater care for evidence than in the growing psychical community. And there is nothing more likely than that the answer lies in the realm of inner self knowing.
If you felt like it, you might practice your imaginative abilities by translating this into a Shakespeare soliloquy. It reads as a draft of such. Both men were moderns who regarded Nature as a sufficient basis for pointing to cause. And therefore leaving the mystery of Reality intact.
The entire spiritual quest is about contemplating God.
Ken Wilber created an entire book to remind us that the early proponents of quantum ideas were all mystics. Quantum theory suggests that there is vastly more to reality than what we now perceive.
In Chapter 6 of Isaiah, this thought is succinctly stated in the 'see and see but do not understand' section.
Everything that is most germane to our future lies beyond our normal vision. Only psychics of a certain stripes can give us hints. To go there is to be hooked on supposition and wrestle with the existential problems of uncertainty.
Suffice to say that there is no greater care for evidence than in the growing psychical community. And there is nothing more likely than that the answer lies in the realm of inner self knowing.
